A great, but long, Nov. 2005 Canadian paper on use of broadband by indigenous
peoples. Tony Belcourt, president of the Metis Nation, co-authored the
document. We're working together on International Indigenous issues.Aboriginal Voice - From Digital Divide
to Digital Opportunityhttp://knet.ca/documents/Aboriginal-Voices-Final-Report-Vol5_Doc_051122.pdf
33pages -
but the last three pages are a summary.

Workshop OutcomesSpecial thanks to Nick and Bill Weems for expert friendly
assistance installing Netscape, Quicktime, and Flipalbum software as
well as connecting the webcams and headphones. This allowed the
workshop to truly be unique in the amount of new skills we were able
to cover.

I'd like to recommend you consider purchasing at least one copy of
flipalbum, a 4x5 Wacom digital art tablet from
www.wacom.com
($199 and it comes with art and photo manipulation software). A
Yamaha musical keyboard
www.musicansfriend.com and Cakewalk Home Studio software ($90
www.cakewalk.com
). A wide color plotter would allow producing poster sized high
res. artwork. A few loaner digital cameras and video cameras along
with Pinnacle video editing software would stimulate local
creativity. Perhaps Gordon and Judy could conduct a beginners video
workshop?

Consider leaving Quicktime and Netscape on the computers to allow
video viewing and web page authoring. My hope is I'll be able to
return to conduct a train the trainers program so your own trainers
can help everyone acquire these new self-expression skills. Consider
an electronic scrapbooking workshop for Adults.

Below is a summary of the workshop. Many resources demonstrated
during the workshop are online at
http://lone-eagles.com/workshop.htm I left print copies of my
online Ecommerce lessons and other resources with Bill and Julie.

Since we had the lab all to ourselves on the second day, Gordon and
Judy set up their video lighting stands and took lots of video. In
order to complete the video however, it would be important to
interview Valerie Fasthorse and others to capture the vision for the
future for I.T. on the CDA Rez. Perhaps when you three get together
next you can accomplish this?

FYI, on the second day we learned to make video movies using Windows
Movie Maker (part of XP). We viewed demos of digital art tablets (
www.wacom.com
) and everyone who wanted to try one - got the opportunity. We had
two musical keyboards with 100 voices and background styles.

SUMMARYNov. 9-10 at the Coeur d'Alene tribal community I.T. center
fifteen 6-8th grade youth
and their teacher participated in a workshop titled :

Realizing Cultural and Community Sustainability
through Internet Innovations in Native Communities

We began by asking How many of you have a PC and Internet at home?
(Most had both)
Your own laptop? Digital Camera? (No one had laptops,
most had cameras)
Do you have an email account or know how to get one?
Used listservs? (Everyone had email)
Have you ever created a web page? Can you save images?
(No one had created web pages)
Create folders, move and copy files between folders
(few had worked with folders)
Have you used blogs? MySpace? Youtube? (Most had not
used blogs but had MySpace websites)
Have you created videos? (No one had, but everyone
learned this during the workshop)

The purpose of the workshop was to develop as many new multimedia
skills as possible, and the motivation to learn more.

We started by creating a folder on the desktop to store
everything we?d be gathering and creating. We went to google,
clicked on images, typed in a topic and from thousands of topical
images saved a few favorites to the folder. We learned to make
searches more specific by using quotes around specific phrases,
using multiple keywords, and about the advanced search features
listed under the help button.

We used Netscape composer (composer is a free web authoring program
integrated into the Netscape Navigator browser in V. 7.0) to create
a simple homepage with images, text, hyperlinks and a background. We
then created secondary pages and inserted a homepage link to the
second page and a second page link to the home page. We learned to
place and size images and to add colored borders of any size. We
went to animation factory to save and insert colorful animations
from a library of 10,000 copyright free animations. The activity
accomplished fully functional web sites saved to CD's with the
option to continue to add any number of additional web pages.

Next, we used the flipalbum software (downloaded a free 30 day free
trial from www.flipalbum.com
) and in three quick steps selected our folders and the software
created an electronic scrapbook with all our images and animations.
We then learned to add annotations, manipulate images, add bookmarks
and edit our flipalbums. I demonstrated how Alaskan Native Elders
were able to narrate their historical photos in Flipalbums -
preserving their knowledge for future generations.

We viewed videos and model Indigenous Internet projects from Canada
as listed on the workshop web tour pages. We visited
www.YouTube.com
(a teacher's tour of youtube is listed in the web tour)

Next, we used the webcams to create videos of ourselves and save
them. And we used Windows Sound Recorder to save audio files as
podcasts that could be added to our web pages along with our videos.
We used Windows Movie Maker to connect video clips with special
effects, transitions and text to produce our first mini-movies.

Next, we held a Web Raising and created free ecommerce web sites at
tripod.com which can continue to be developed from any computer
without a time restriction or cost. These web sites do not expire
and have many tutorials and advanced features that allow them to
become very serious ecommerce sites. Ron Ridesatthedoor has a site
selling alfalfa as bunny food (bringing in $1000/month)
www.sunroadsfarmory.com

Everyone reviewed multiple videos and links from the online workshop
handout at
http://lone-eagles.com/workshop.htm and saw presentations on
musical keyboards, Home studio music software, digital art tablets,
panorama images, native community web sites and innovative community
technology projects and more.

At the end of each day, all creative works were saved on CDs to take
home to show parents, siblings, and grandparents.

A video crew from American
Indian IPTV was ready on the final day to record a summary of the day before
with the Native Vision articulated

Recommended Questions to Ask Youth After
the Workshop.

What would
you advise tribal leaders to do regarding the future of the community I.T.
center?

What type of
training and new skills do you think are most important for the tribe?

What would
you like to see in your future regarding new skills and preferred lifestyle?